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(No Model.)

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No. 510,639. Patented Dec. 12, 1893.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OF ICE.

PRESCOTT GA NSON, OF liOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 510,639, dated December12, 1893.

Application filed February 24, 1893 Serial No. 463,623- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it'known that I, PRESCOTT GANsoN, of Logansport, in the county ofCass and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Shirts, of which theneck and shoulders of the wearer,and the neck-band is enabled to retain a collar thereon with a frontbutton only, thus enabling the usual rear button or stud to be dispensedwith.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the form of neck-openingcontemplated by the present invention.

Figure 1, is a front view of the upper portion of a shirt made inaccordance with this invention, the dotted lines indicating the positionassumed by the neck-opening when the shirt is being worn. Fig. 2, is aside view of the upper part of the shirt with a collar attached. Fig. 3,shows the separate pieces which enter into the formation of theneckopening in the manufacture of the shirt.

As far as concerns the neck opening and the present invention, the shirtis composed of two overlapping front pieces A, A, constituting thebosom, a back or shoulder piece B, and a neck band C. The opening isformed by cutting out the adjacent edges of the bosom and shoulderpieces A B respectively at a and b, so that when the pieces are fittedand sewed together an opening of the desired form will be produced, theneck band 0, consisting of one straight piece of the material, beingthen sewed into the opening so formed.

The present invention has to do with the form of the neck openingwhereby the necessity of a rear attaching button for the collar isobviated. To this end the neck opening is patterned as fo1lows:-Thelateral diameter of the opening is made slightly less than the width ofthe neck of the person for whom the shirt is designed, while thediameter from.

front to back is made greater, so that when the shirt is put on the neckopening is necessarily distended laterally, such lateral distentionbeing permitted by reason of the surplus width of the opening from frontto back. A proper relation between the less and greater diameters of theneck opening is attained by making them in the ratio of eight to nine,this proportion givinga comfortable fit around the neck. --The neckopening is not located entirely forward of the shoulder seams (i. e.,theseams joining the bosom and shoulder pieces A, B), but extends also ashort'distance back of the shoulder seams, the opening being formed bycutting out both of the adjacent edges. (See Fig. 3.) The distance,however, from the line of the shoulder seams to the front margin of theneck opening I make about eight times the distance from the line 'of theshoulder seams to the rear margin of the opening, so that the greaterpart of the neck opening is forward of the shoulder seams. The positionof the shoulder seamsis such that the line of the seams conforms to thenatural position of the shoulders of the wearer, and the seams strikethe neck-opening perpendicularly. The relative distances which theneck-opening extends forward and back of the shoulder seams arecalculated by the relation actually existing between the neck andshoulders of a man, and the shirt is thus properly patterned to conformto real physiological requirements. A neck-opening proportioned asstated will fit the neck nicely and will not be subjected to. unduestrain when the shirt is worn.

The effect of the described form of neck openingis to keep an ordinaryseparate collar (D, Fig. 2) thereon without the use of a rear attachingbutton. When theshirtisworn, the neck opening is pressed out at thesides (as the dotted lines in Fig. l are intended to 7 of its rearmargin and the lateral diameter of said neck-opening ascut being lessthan its 15 diameter from front to rear whereby lateral distention ofthe neck-opening is permitted when the shirt is worn, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in 20 presence of twowitnesses.

PRESCOTT GANSON.

Witnesses:

J. H. WALTERS, ALBERT MoCUMBs.

